Beit Roga

An end of the summer/back to school special. So you are all expecting part 2 of the Leslie story, and if you want, I will publish it tomorrow or later this week. But today was such a day that I thought I would write about it and end of summer/back to school…stuff. What I have learned this summer is that living spontaneously is not half bad. For someone who loves routine and order, having a plan, having a schedule, moving with the needs of the current moment was a bit overwhel

PreScript: I wrote this blog a year ago, a few weeks after I met Leslie. It has been waiting for the right time to be published, and now is the right time. I hope you are able to love and learn these lessons from this article, without having to meet Leslie herself. xo Devorah Let me introduce you to Leslie. Leslie is my great friend. I met her in a very unusual way, but we’ll get to that later. Immediately upon introduction it was clear that Leslie was near and dear to my

How often do you come across a situation you really don’t want to be in, or have an occasion you really don’t want to go to, and as you are going through it you are thinking “Ughh” the whole time? You have an errand to run and you pull yourself out the door to do it, or a meeting at your kid’s kindergarten that you could run yourself you’ve been to so many…and you just drag yourself through it… Well, here is what I have learned this week. A sort of meeting of the minds of the

There have been requests coming in for tips on being organized and efficient. With the summer half-way over and people getting organized for back to school and last minute summer projects, I figured this is the appropriate time for this topic. Some of us are born with a knack for organization. Give us a task, a party, a holiday to organize, and we will have a plan, a shopping list and a day-to-day to do list ready within minutes. It is not only easy and natural for us, it is

Here is a story. I am not sure what lessons will come from it at the end of this blog. For now, I just know I need to tell it. Let’s start with Friday. We came back on Thursday from a family vacation and were leaving again on Friday to go to Jerusalem for Shabbat. Laundry, unpacking, repacking…and if that wasn’t enough, I had some errands that needed to get run Friday morning in Jerusalem. So, after throwing in a few loads, I went off on my errands (all for the Wellness Cente